Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest gold rush since the Klondike was on last week. But most of the prospectors were the slick, sharp-eyed speculators of the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. In the "kaffir circuses"-the usually cautious sections of the exchanges where South African gold stocks are traded-the market value of Orange Free State shares zoomed $100,000,000 in 48 hours...
...termitary is not ruled by a queen. She, incarcerated by her own obesity in the center of the community, is fed by the workers who bring her food and who carry away the eggs as fast as she lays them-which among certain African species may total as high as 40,000 per diem (and this for 30 years). The male, bewildered by all this fecundity, crawls about Her Majesty's belly performing his time-honored functions. . . . Nor will the colony die if the queen dies. In a manner still an entomological mystery, the workers of the termites...
...London for $212.50. In about seven months the Queen Elizabeth would be in regular North Atlantic service. By mid-summer the French Line hopes to have the Ile de France and DeGrasse running. Before long, the War Shipping Administration hopes to allocate more ships to the Mediterranean and South African runs, now serviced only by freighters...
...interdenominational religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
...land of the African Rhino There lives a pure white albino. His parents are blacker than Navy tobaccer; How he can be white I'm damnfino...